Othello Jealousy And Jealousy Essay

Throughout the play Othello, Shakespeare depicts the themes of betrayal, jealousy, revenge, and love through the death and manipulation of the characters. Out of the four themes, jealousy seemed to be the most prominent theme. Jealousy, which made Othello kill Desdemona, made Othello realize that he “loved not wisely, but too well; Of one not easily jealous..” in Act 5, Scene 2 (V.i. 404). Through the actions of Othello, we see that sexual jealousy causes one’s emotion to be destructive and detrimental. Ego, on the other hand, made Othello realize that he cannot accept the fact that Desdemona is having an “affair” and that he cannot live without her which made him to be jealous. Because jealousy prevents a person from being someone that they
Iago is delusive, he changes the contour of reality, he implies things so that a person can think otherwise about a thought, and finally, Iago is clever with timing and his word of choice. Iago manipulates and acts like he is favoring the person that he’s talking to by knowing what to say and when to say it. In her article, “ When chaos is come again: narrative and narrative analysis in Othello,” Marcia Macaulay states that Iago “commences with an imperative, follows with a question that he himself answers, and ends with a bold assertion. He has complete command of discourse” (Macaulay). This can be seen when Iago tells Othello “O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on;” (III.iii. 195-197). In this statement, Iago, out of jealousy, pretends to watch out for Othello by telling Othello to not be jealous himself and by pointing out that a man becomes a prey to jealousy itself if he falls for it. Here, we see that Iago is commencing with imperative and ending the conversation with a bold assertion. Another example can be seen in act 3, scene 3, when Iago begins to point out the shady flaws in Othello’s and Desdemona’s relationship. First, Iago states that Desdemona married Othello while she was deceiving her own father. This makes Iago bring up how Desdemona can be very deceitful. Not having
She seems to remain very loyal to Othello but at the end, she dies due to Iago’s manipulation and out of Othello’s jealousy. In the final act, Othello rationalizes Desdemona’s murder by having the mindset that since Desdemona cheated on Othello, he would feel right by murdering Desdemona in the bed that they shared as a married couple. In act 5, scene 1, Othello states, “Thou teachest me.—Minion, your dear lies dead, And your unblest fate hies. Strumpet, I come. Forth of my heart those charms, thine eyes, are blotted. Thy bed, lust-stained, shall with lust’s blood be spotted,” meaning that Desdemona should die where she lusted (V.i. 35-41). When Othello finally does kill Desdemona, he makes up an excuse to feel good about himself. In act 5, scene 2, Othello states that “She’s like a liar gone to burning hell! ’Twas I that killed her” and right after, Emilia states that “O, the more angel she, and you the blacker devil!” (V.ii. 159-161). This implies that when Othello did finally kill Desdemona, he used a stereotype to blame the murder. Black men are prone to be violent, they are prone to be reckless and act like a savage, and that black men are supposed to be feared. Shakespeare, through the death of Desdemona, depicts the theme of jealousy and implies that jealousy can turn a person into someone that they are